Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , much of this work is heavily weighted towards the study of individual words , even though it is widely recognized that most vocabulary growth comes from encountering words in the course of reading .
2 In fact it is now widely recognized that some consumption expenditure of this type , in so far as it combats malnutrition , should be considered as equivalent to investment .
3 I have since heard that many people thought this to be unfair and an additional class has been effected for next year called the professional amateur class .
4 In the large public company it is now accepted as part of conventional wisdom that the shareholding is so widely dispersed that each shareholder does not own a significant enough proportion of the company to perform any of the functions of monitoring and supervising the directors that the legal model casts upon him .
5 ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again .
6 The link with sovereignty and with the ultra vires doctrine is provided by implication : parliament only intended that such discretion should be exercised on relevant and not irrelevant considerations , or to achieve proper and not improper purposes .
7 The reception office should be so organised that all sources of information necessary to answer enquiries are immediately to hand .
8 Nevertheless his choreographic plan is so designed that each movement of every dancer , whether as an individual or part of the group , is co-ordinated with the others so that it fits correctly into the overall pattern and within the space allotted by stage , wings and backcloth which — in Symphonic Variations — delicately echoes the curving lines or the dance .
9 At the new Grand Central in New York there was a separate waiting-room for gangs of labourers and immigrants , with its own attendants , so designed that these groups need not encounter other passengers .
10 British Rail has long argued that most passengers travelling to and from King 's Cross will do so by public transport .
11 ‘ What 'd I Say ’ sounded so possessed that many radio stations refused to play it .
12 It has considerable agility , and its powers of dry staccato have been so much exploited that this form of musical humour has quite lost its savour nowadays .
13 In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against .
14 He persuaded the King not to put his obstinate daughter Mary in the Tower for refusing the oath , though Henry rightly foretold that this kindness would do Cranmer no good .
15 On balance , however , it was generaly agreed that this feature did not warrant the de-selection of ( i ) as the best possible opening to the story .
16 Although it is obviously hoped that these accounts will be interesting as economic history , whatever they reveal about the working and role of government may also be relevant and applicable today .
17 Miliutin rightly believed that this practice gave rise to major administrative complications .
18 This finding conflicts with those of Bransford and Johnson ( 1972 ) and Dooling and Mullett ( 1973 ) who found that providing information about the theme or context of a passage after it had been presented did not improve performance , and so concluded that such information only affected the organisation carried out when the passage was memorised .
19 But budgetary relations between the White House and Democratic leaders in Congress are now so strained that some officials warn that the whole process of long-term deficit reduction could be threatened .
20 At Great Casterton I had suddenly discovered that this process held a hidden danger and that in the future this had to be avoided at all costs .
21 Acoustic forecasts had wrongly predicted that any noise generated by the blasts would not affect any towns or villages .
22 Initial documents were sent to Dublin from Britain in January , but Mr Barnes has since revealed that more documents were supplied by London as recently as July .
23 The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines .
24 [ In the Court of Appeal Pickin successfully argued that this case was authority for the House of Lords refusing to give effect to a private Act obtained by fraud . ]
25 It is now widely accepted that such headaches can be precipitated by foods as well as stress , the oral contraceptive Pill , and the build-up to a period .
26 But for those in Japan who do achieve a more secure status it is widely accepted that such benefits are unlikely to be renewed if the individual moves to another company .
27 It is widely accepted that this system ‘ has nothing to teach us ’ .
28 The Inland Revenue eventually decided that this practice was contrary to the legislation on PRP schemes , and put an end to it in a Statement of Practice ( SP7/92 , see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 103 ) .
29 It is not perhaps generally realised that this practice began as early as the late seventeenth century and that many of the splendid coloured aquatint books of the nineteenth century first reached the public in this way .
30 There is no express disqualification from voting in the case of mental patients other than the general reference to ‘ any legal incapacity to vote ’ in s.1(l) ( b ) ( i ) of the 1983 Act but it is generally considered that any person who , at the moment of voting , lacked capacity to understand what he was immediately about to do , whether by reason of mental illness or drunkenness , etc. , could be denied the right to vote by the presiding officer at the poll .
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